Recognition

"We are often fooled by someone's appearance, their age or illness or anger, or meanness or just too busy to recognize that there is in everyone a place of goodness and integrity, no matter how deeply buried.   We are too hurried or distracted to stop and bear witness to it.   When we recognize the spark of God in others, we blow on it, no matter how deeply it has been buried or for how long.   When we bless someone, we touch the unborn goodness in them and wish it well."  Rachel Naomi Remen